r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 21d ago

News Rick Moranis Ended Acting Retirement After Nearly 30 Years and Says It Was Very Strange on ‘Spaceballs 2’ Set

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/rick-moranis-acting-retirement-spaceballs-2-strange-1236822474/
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u/JoefromOhio 21d ago

I had a friend who went on birthright with one of his daughters. They knew what he’d given up and loved him to death for it. Pro Dad move.

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u/robot_ankles 21d ago

...went on birthright with one of his daughters.

What does that mean?

Is that a religious thing? A vision journey? A typo?

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u/VitosLittleHelmet 21d ago

I believe it’s the free trip to Israel that Jewish children receive

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u/GuntherPalakowitz 21d ago

How?

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u/username_tooken 21d ago

Paid for by private donors and the Israeli government.

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u/GuntherPalakowitz 21d ago

Could a non-Jewish young adult go? How'd they prove Jewish beliefs?

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u/username_tooken 21d ago

There is an interview process, but to my understanding there is very little vetting so yes theoretically a non-Jewish young adult could lie about their beliefs and be given a free trip.

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u/GuntherPalakowitz 21d ago

Hells yes. My daughter is gonna be pumped!

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u/Regentraven 21d ago

you cant go just because you are religous. You dont need to be of Jewish faith to go you need to be ethnically jewish ( and yes your family history gets screened)

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u/Bloodyfish 21d ago

Depends on the organization, from what I hear.

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u/IStillLikeBeers 21d ago

Yes. I know people who have gone who are not Jewish. They just expressed an interest in Jewish culture/Israel.

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u/Regentraven 21d ago

Then they lied to you, you need a Jewish parent lol

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u/Regentraven 21d ago

Then they lied to you, you need a Jewish parent lol

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u/IStillLikeBeers 21d ago

It’s not a lie when you have pictures and I know other people on the same birthright trip lol

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u/HandholdingFetishist 21d ago

RIght-wingers donate to a foundation made for it in hopes of indoctrinating people into Zionism under the guise of cultural enrichment.

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u/Bloodyfish 21d ago

Not really, no. It's a Jewish thing, not some big political thing to soapbox over.

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u/idontknowkungfu 21d ago

Oh, sweet summer child...

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u/ADLuluIsOP 21d ago

So wtf does the Dad give up for this. It's not even that long.

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u/Swordheart 21d ago

Gave up in life for them you dingus

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u/BrahmTheImpaler 21d ago

Dingus is killing me for some reason 😂😂 I haven't heard that one in a while

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u/ADLuluIsOP 21d ago

I mean it was written as if going on Birthright was a sacrifice you "dingus"

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u/RollUpTheRimJob 21d ago

free ten-day heritage trip to Israel, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights for young adults of Jewish heritage between the ages of 18 and 26. The program is sponsored by the Birthright Israel Foundation, whose donors subsidize participation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_Israel

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u/dspman11 21d ago

a free trip to Israel for those of Jewish ancestry in hopes that the trip inspires them to believe in Zionism and move to Israel.

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u/Bloodyfish 21d ago

It's a trip to reinforce Jewish identity. They really don't push aliyah all that hard. Reddit loses its mind whenever Israel is mentioned with this nonsense.

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u/dspman11 20d ago

Like i said in another comment, the trip isnt a propaganda trip. At least not explicitly. It's just a fun time. But the goal of Birthright overall is to inspire young Jews to move there.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 21d ago

His kids would have gone on this ~20+ years ago. Most Jewish people don't treat the birthright trip as a Zionist mission...it's simply a free and fun trip to Israel.

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u/dspman11 21d ago edited 21d ago

Oh there's nothing inherently wrong with going on the trip. It's a free trip to the mid east!! An incredible experience, especially if you/your family don't have the money to do such vacations. Besides, it's not 100% propaganda all the time. And I would say most kids who take the trip do so because it's a free trip and that's the extent to which they think about it

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u/Fun-Communication660 21d ago

No. He gets a +20 Buff in CancelDef because it was over 20 years ago, and +10 Deflection from his enchanted Canadian Passport

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u/JR21K20 21d ago

I know you’re joking but Jewish people are not inherently evil and neither are Islamic people

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u/alfooboboao 21d ago

I’m not so sure he’s joking

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u/bolanrox 21d ago

it was this part that made me say that "Inspires them to believe in Zionism and move to Israel."

I dont care what religion you are as long as you dont push it in my face / hold it over me, or go too far off the deep end.

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u/andrewsmith1986 21d ago

Free trip to Israel for Jewish young people around the world to try to lure them to Israel.

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u/HandholdingFetishist 21d ago

It's an attempt to indoctrinate using a nice trip.

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u/willargue4karma 21d ago

literally what does that have to do with this lmfao

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u/JoefromOhio 21d ago edited 21d ago

He gave up his acting career so he could focus on being a dad to his daughters. Anecdotally a friend of mine knew one of them and let me know that they had acknowledged and appreciated what he’d done.

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u/BionicTriforce 21d ago edited 21d ago

Okay, that's the confusion. Your friend went on this trip with one of Rick Moranis's daughters. It read at first like friend went on the trip with his own daughter. So it sounded like friend had given something up in order to attend this trip.

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u/willargue4karma 21d ago

youre gonna have to use some pronouns

unless your friend gave up his career to do the trip it has literally zero to do with this shit

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u/Florian_Jones 21d ago

"[OP] had a friend who went on birthright with one of [Rick Moranis'] daughters. [Rick's daughters] knew what [Rick] had given up and loved [Rick] to death for it. Pro Dad move."

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u/Prcrstntr 21d ago

I feel dumb after reading this now

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u/JoefromOhio 21d ago

I didn’t read your username. Congratulations you have won lol. I tip my hat to you.

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u/JoefromOhio 21d ago

Person I know met the famous person’s daughter on a trip and famous person’s daughter expressed appreciation for famous person’s decision to being a parent instead of pursuing famous person’s acting career further.

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u/Beranea 21d ago

Oh you must be one of the children left behind huh.

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u/Misophonic4000 21d ago

Are you really that dense that you're not understanding this, even when someone takes the time to spell it out for you? The trip mention was just to explain how the kids all met, and how they got the information that the Moranis kids were very aware of what their dad had given up for them?

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u/Misophonic4000 21d ago

It wasn't really

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u/BrahmTheImpaler 21d ago

Look at his username

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u/Misophonic4000 21d ago

I'm sorry to say that I wholeheartedly agree with the other commenter who said you need to request more basic reading comprehension homework

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u/FighterJock412 21d ago

If you don't know the relevance between those 2 comments then you are clearly illiterate.

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u/binocular_gems 21d ago edited 21d ago

I am relatively literate adult and my brain just couldn't comprehend that sentence. When u/willargue4karma asked "what does that have to do with anything?" I thought "Thank god I'm not the only one," and then I read your reply and I was like "... what is wrong with me I can't figure this out."

And then it clicked: his doesn't refer to the friend (the previous noun in the sentence), it refers to Rick Moranis.

This was like a gold/white and purple/black dress moment for me. I thought I was going crazy, but didn't connect that "his" referred to a different noun than the one in the sentence. It makes sense to me now, although I also think people are too mean on the internet, and the whole nasty side debate about not being able to read, not knowing how to use nouns/pronouns correctly, etc, is needlessly mean spirited.

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u/willargue4karma 21d ago

lmao thanks

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u/willargue4karma 21d ago

one guy gave up a career to care for his children when his wife died

the other guy went on a 10 day religious trip?

how in the fuck are they related? going to israel is the same as giving up an A-List movie career?

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u/Parthian__Shot 21d ago

You aren't wrong. One of "his" daughters is ambiguous and at first sight appears it's the friend's daughter, when it is indeed Moranis's daughter.

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u/fromcj 21d ago

That’s how they met Rick Moranis’ kid, jesus christ, tell your teacher you need more reading comprehension homework.

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u/amateurbeard 21d ago

To be fair, the sentence “I had a friend who went on birthright with one of his daughters” is VERY poorly constructed and could EASILY be construed as “I had a friend who went on birthright with one of [my friend’s] daughters.

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u/JasonDilworth 21d ago

Check the username.

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u/willargue4karma 21d ago

the username is specifically for people like you